$ whoami
Ilya Krupen
Backend / Platform Engineer
$ stack
Go • Python • Kubernetes • Kafka
$ status
building distributed systems...I design and build backend systems, internal platforms, and developer tooling.
My main interests:
- Distributed Systems
- Platform Engineering
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Observability
Outside of engineering:
- Movies
- Games
- Music
- APIs are products
- Reliability scales teams
- Observability is a feature
- Simplicity beats cleverness
- Automate repetitive work
- Infrastructure should empower developers
- Some bright future
- Open Source project (coming soon)
- Platform tooling
- Backend services in Go
- Developer productivity workflows
| Title | Type |
|---|---|
| Ghost in the Shell | Cyberpunk |
| Serial Experiments Lain | Experimental |
| Goodfellas | Crime |
| Perfect Blue | Psychological Thriller |
"There is no fate but what we build."

